I can't believe Zinadine Zidane saying Thierry Henry isn’t a cheat after the French star’s blatant handballing knocked a justifiably indignant Ireland out of the 2010 World Cup.
Look Zinny, unless Thierry Henry suffers from multiple personality disorder and thought he was Michael Jordan for a bit, he’s a cheat.
Then again, asking the French to play fair for a whole game is like asking Michael Bay to make a movie with no explosions or pretty girls.
The English ought to be happy, because now there is a nationality the Irish hate more than them.
Those who think the Wallabies ought to be fed to the Loch Ness Monster after their loss to Scotland shouldn’t.
Come on, if people live in a country where the sky is black and 20 metres off the ground, and have to eat haggis, wear kilts, play bagpipes and endure Proclaimers reunion gigs, then why should we begrudge them a win?
More importantly, it wasn’t England that beat us.
Three cheers for American wrestling legend Hulk Hogan for declaring rugby league players tougher than American footballers.
People say there are bigger hits in American football than league, but when you are wearing more armour than a Abrahms M1 Main Battle Tank you can slam and get slammed as hard as you like. Some players in an American football team don’t have to tackle, while others don’t have to be tackled, and then there are players that don’t have to do either, such as the punters, which for mine, makes league a game more demanding on the toughness of a player.
As a spectacle, give me the Bangladesh versus Zimbabwe test cricket series or the SBS test pattern over American football any day.
Hogan’s call was the best thing he has done since throwing Sylvester Stallone out of the ring and into the crowd in Rocky III.
I haven't given my old mate Sam Newman a bucketing for at least two weeks, and I’m sure he’s feeling neglected, so here I go.
Newman’s inability to respect his fellow human beings and control his mouth has cost the Nine Network $220,000 after a successful defamation action launched by Western Bulldogs board member Susan Alberti. Alberti signed a letter of complaint to Channel 9 about the attitude of Newman and his fellow AFL Footy Show panellists, and was, with her fellow signatories, described as a “liar and hypocrite.”
Newman then refused to be included in the subsequent
apology.
Now I am confounded after reading an interview with Newman in Sunday’s Sun-Herald, in which his answers are articulate and make good sense.
Maybe it is only when Newman has a TV camera pointed at him that he acts like a man who is about as sensible as the Iraqi information minister during the 2003 war, and about as funny as a terrorist attack on a children’s hospital.